I never had a problem updating Windows 7 until Window 10 was released. It seems to me that Microsoft may be lacking in Business ethics. I find it hard to believe that all these bugs that have been continuously released since Window 10 arrived are accidental. The Microsoft techs I chatted with informed me that the bugs preventing me from connecting to Microsoft update server were server side, and that they have been aware of these bugs for quite some time. I'm paraphrasing of course.
Many Schools, Hospitals, and Businesses still use Window 7. Can you imagine having to manually install all these updates on Hundreds, and even thousands of machines! If they are having these problems they will have no option other than to upgrade.
I'm not at all suprised... I have long suspected a big part of the slow Win7 Update problems had to do with changes they made to their updates servers after the "Get Windows 10" campaign got under way.
As for business ethics... M$ has always been first and foremost a marketing company... secondly, a smart purchaser of good technology companies... and service has always been a distant third at best -- if you're one of their enterprise customers... consumers are not really considered (except as beta-testers)
And I believe that, at least in part, this whole new procedure of cumulative/roll-up updates is also designed to motivate their customers to move to Windows 10. (I'd be deeply shocked if M$ devotes any energy or personnel to fixing the Win7 Update debacle.)
Good luck
cutting_edgetech... (P.S. I enjoy your posts on Wilders)